Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
Thanks for the link http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ It was wonderful. Once I get somewhat more experienced in Python, I guess this site will provide me with some good fun times. For the moment, I decided to follow Programming Python. Once done, I shall learn the newest features from some latest book like the Nutshell one. Thanks to all for replying. Regards, Santanu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
Hi, Probably the best resources for learning Python are available online. Here are a few sites that you might find helpful: 1. http://byteofpython.info/ 2. http://www.diveintopython.org/ -- Writted by Mark Pilgrim, covers many advanced material. The site says /Dive into Python/ is a Python book for experienced programmers. 3. http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ -- Site for Text Processing in Python, a book by David mertz. You will find many other very good Python related material on his website. regards, Satchit Satchidanand Haridas (sharidas at zeomega dot com) ZeOmega (www.zeomega.com) Open Minds' Open Solutions #20,Rajalakshmi Plaza, South End Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore-560 004, India santanu wrote: Hi all, I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I have access to 'Programming Python' which I liked (on flipping through the pages), but the problem is it deals only with version 2.0 of Phython. So, I would be glad if you could suggest me whether it would be really a good idea to learn from this book. In other words, will I have to unlearn too much after I complete this book (by the time I am done with this book, I believe we will be having Python 2.6 or so). Please suggest. Regards, Santanu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
santanu wrote: Hi all, I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I have access to 'Programming Python' which I liked (on flipping through the pages), but the problem is it deals only with version 2.0 of Phython. So, I would be glad if you could suggest me whether it would be really a good idea to learn from this book. In other words, will I have to unlearn too much after I complete this book (by the time I am done with this book, I believe we will be having Python 2.6 or so). Please suggest. Regards, Santanu I realy would recomend Practival Python it's a wery good book which I think it's written for 2.2 or 2.3, but it's got all the basic modern python aspects like new style classes. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590590066/qid=1106830797/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-9460635-7128701?v=glances=booksn=507846 -- -- Ola Natvig [EMAIL PROTECTED] infoSense AS / development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've only just had Python 2.4. Based on previous experience that means it will be about 18 months before python 2.5. I learned to program from 'Programming Python'. Particularly the stuff on Tkinter is very helpful. I don't think you'll have much to 'unlearn', although obviously there is stuff it doesn't cover (like new style classes). . . . Python is considerate of programmers. While experience with commercial products might lead to an expectation that 2.0 and 2.4 differ greatly, in fact it's quite feasible to learn from books aimed at 1.5 or even before, and have your results work perfectly well under 2.4. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
We've only just had Python 2.4. Based on previous experience that means it will be about 18 months before python 2.5. I learned to program from 'Programming Python'. Particularly the stuff on Tkinter is very helpful. I don't think you'll have much to 'unlearn', although obviously there is stuff it doesn't cover (like new style classes). Regards, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Please suggest on the book to follow
Hi all, I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I have access to 'Programming Python' which I liked (on flipping through the pages), but the problem is it deals only with version 2.0 of Phython. So, I would be glad if you could suggest me whether it would be really a good idea to learn from this book. In other words, will I have to unlearn too much after I complete this book (by the time I am done with this book, I believe we will be having Python 2.6 or so). Please suggest. Regards, Santanu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
Thanks for the reply. From your suggestions, I guess I would have no problems learning from Programming Python. I didn't like Core Python Programming and such books. I like to read cover to cover and the chapters on data structures and such elementary things put me to sleep. I already have an idea of those things. I have a fair knowledge of C and some Perl. From what you and Fyzzyman said, I guess when I am done with Programming Python, graduating to the latest features would be quite easy. Isn't it? Regards, Santanu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
santanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I think there's supposed to be a new version of Python in a Nutshell coming. That's a more serious book than Learning Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], santanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . From what you and Fyzzyman said, I guess when I am done with Programming Python, graduating to the latest features would be quite easy. Isn't it? . . . Yes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please suggest on the book to follow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: santanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I think there's supposed to be a new version of Python in a Nutshell Just a 2nd edition. I'm just starting to write it. By the time it's done and out in print, say six months if you're a VERY optimistic guy, I'm pretty sure santanu will be an experienced Pythonista and quite ready to take advantage, if he chooses, of the Nutshell's 2nd edition as a convenient desktop reference, which is its main intended role. coming. That's a more serious book than Learning Python. Speaking as the author of the Nutshell, and a TR for Learning, I think I'm reasonably unbiased (or, equally biased in favor of both;-), and I don't think of Learning as ``less serious'' -- it does have a different role, of course. If a book whose title is Learning X (for any X) does its job well, then when you're done with it you can probably put it aside -- as Wittgenstein said of the learner, he must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it. A book that is meant mostly as a convenient reference, if _it_ does its job, keeps being useful for a longer time. On the other hand, using the Nutshell for the purpose of learning Python, while certainly feasible if you're well skilled in computer programming (in other languages), may not be as easy as using Learning Python for that purpose! All in all, while I'm of course gladder the more copies of the Nutshell are sold, I still think that, for the _learning_ part, most people might be better served by Learning Python -- or, for that matter, the already recommended Practical Python (it has many significant completely worked-out example programs -- I was a TR for it, too) or Dive into Python (VERY fast and meant for already-experienced programmers -- I wasn't a TR for it, but, my _wife_ was...;-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
